Linebacker, Prairie View A&M (from Troy), 2020–25
Darrell Starling
- Number
- No. 25
- Height
- 6′0″
- Weight
- 218 lb
- Class (2025)
- Senior
- Hometown
- Pelham, GA
Darrell Starling played linebacker at Troy (2020–24) and Prairie View A&M (2025).
Career highs
11tackles, career highat Rice, 2025Team titles: Sun Belt champions, 2022 and 2023; SWAC champions, 2025
Defense
Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. A dash: the source has no number for that season (often an FCS season), and career totals count only the numbers on file.
On the roster
| Season | Team | No. | Pos | Class | Ht | Wt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Troy | 25 | LB | Yr 1 | ||
| 2021 | Troy | 25 | LB | Yr 2 | ||
| 2022 | Troy | 25 | LB | Yr 3 | ||
| 2023 | Troy | 25 | LB | Yr 4 | ||
| 2024 | Troy | 25 | LB | Yr 5 | ||
| 2025 | Prairie View A&M | 25 | LB | Sr. (Yr 6) | 6′0″ | 218 |
As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.
Game by game
2025 Prairie View A&M 3 games, 16 tackles, 1 INT
| Date | Opponent | Result | Tkl | Solo | TFL | Sacks | Int | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13 | at Rice | L 17–38 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 6 | at Jackson State | W 23–21 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – |
| Dec 13 ✦ | vs. South Carolina State | L 38–40 | 5 | 2 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2024 Troy 5 games, 11 tackles, 1 sack
| Date | Opponent | Result | Tkl | Solo | TFL | Sacks | Int | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31 | vs. Nevada | L 26–28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 7 | at Memphis | L 17–38 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 28 | vs. UL Monroe | L 9–13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 3 | vs. Texas State | L 17–38 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 30 | vs. Southern Miss | W 52–20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2023 Troy 1 game, 2 tackles
| Date | Opponent | Result | Tkl | Solo | TFL | Sacks | Int | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7 | vs. Arkansas State | W 37–3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2022 Troy 2 games, 2 tackles
| Date | Opponent | Result | Tkl | Solo | TFL | Sacks | Int | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3 | at Ole Miss | L 10–28 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 10 | vs. Alabama A&M | W 38–17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2021 Troy 3 games, 9 tackles
| Date | Opponent | Result | Tkl | Solo | TFL | Sacks | Int | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4 | vs. Southern | W 55–3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 18 | atSouthern Miss | W 21–9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 9 | vs. Georgia Southern | W 27–24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2020 Troy 6 games, 12 tackles
| Date | Opponent | Result | Tkl | Solo | TFL | Sacks | Int | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17 | vs. Eastern Kentucky | W 31–29 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 31 | atArkansas State | W 38–10 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 21 | vs. Middle Tennessee | L 17–20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 28 | at App State | L 10–47 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 5 | at South Alabama | W 29–0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 12 | vs. Coastal Carolina | L 38–42 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.
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